The development comes a day after the Punjab Police had arrested accused Siddhesh Kamble alias Sourav Mahakal, in connection with the Sidhu Moose Wala murder case.
Dharamsot was the Forest Minister when Captain Amarinder Singh was CM of Punjab. However, when Amarinder was removed, Dharamsot was also relieved from the post of minister.
Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Punjab's Mansa district on Sunday, a day after the state government pruned his security cover.
The suspect arrested in the Sidhu Moose Wala murder case was produced before the Mansa court on Tuesday which sent him to 5-day police remand.
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann said that even 1% corruption will not be tolerated in the AAP government as he sacked Health Minister Vijay Singla months after the party's emphatic win in the Assembly polls.
Navjot Singh Sidhu, 58, was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment in a 1988 road-rage case by the Supreme Court.
While speaking to the media, the DGP said the RPG used in the Mohali attack was either made in Russia or Bulgaria and has a very high chance of being brought to the country from Pakistan.
A rocket-propelled grenade had hit the Intelligence Wing headquarters of Punjab Police in Mohali on Monday night, shattering windowpanes on one of the floors of the building.
A rocket-propelled grenade fired from the street shattered glasses at Punjab Police's intelligence wing headquarters in Mohali.
A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) on Monday hit the Punjab Police Intelligence wing headquarters in Mohali with police saying a 'minor explosion'.
As per sources in the Punjab government, the blast is not a terrorist incident. The Punjab Police Intelligence department has its own explosives due to which the blast took place.
The four suspected Pakistan linked terrorists on their way to Telangana to deliver explosives were nabbed in Haryana's Karnal on Thursday and arms, ammunition and IEDs were recovered from the vehicle they were travelling in, senior police officials said.
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann is not happy with the police probe so far. The top police officials' late response to the violence has irked the CM.
The fire brigade officials after getting the information rushed to spot and controlled leakage and brought the situation under control.
Among the IPS officers who have been shuffled is the DIG of the newly formed Anti-Gangster Task Force, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, who has been transferred and posted as the DIG of Rupnagar Range, replacing Arun Kumar Mittal.
Punjab Cabinet portfolio distribution: There are 18 berths in the Cabinet, including the Chief Minister, but Bhagwant Mann has gone for a lean cabinet.
The FIR against the Akali Dal leader comes hours after a crossfire, where the EC had registered a complaint against AAP's Kejriwal as well.
Akali Dal had filed a complaint against Kejriwal after he released a video levelling allegations against Sukhbir Badal-led party.
CM Channi filed his nomination papers from the Bhadaur (SC) seat in Barnala district today. After filing his nomination papers, Channi said the Congress party has directed him to contest from Bhadaur seat.
On Tuesday, Congress accused the BJP and its government at the Centre of defaming Punjab and Punjabiyat by raiding a relative of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi in an old case.
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